United Airlines and Technology

Wall Street Journal: Computer outages at United Airlines, the New York Stock Exchange and The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday delivered a reminder about our growing dependence on interconnected networks to get through each day, according to The Toronto Star. For the most part, technology has worked smoothly while hatching innovations and conveniences that have made our lives easier and our jobs more productive. So when technology breaks down, people lives go haywire, too. Computers, though, could bring more frequent headaches as they link together with billions of other electronic devices and household appliances — a phenomenon that has become known as the Internet of things. The problem is humans can’t keep up with all the technology they have created, said Avivah Litan, an analyst at Gartner. This technological daisy chain will increase the complexity of the systems and raise the risks of massive breakdowns, either through an inadvertent glitch or a malicious attack. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.